Push web server is a network software
that can "push" information to clients so clients can read this information
without browsing on the net. It is a new technology that can deliver the
information to client computers directly. It can save time of searching
and network bandwidth.
Pointcast is a push web network. It
can broadcast news to clients up-to-the-minute, and it enables enterprise
intranet to broadcast information to its employee as soon as possible.
After pointcast network is installed, it will replace your screen saver
with the latest headline news as your choice:
1. You don't want to spend a lot of
time on the internet to find the news that you want.
2. Internet information can be broadcast
to other computers by push web server.
3. It totally free. Cost is covered
by its advertiser.
4. You can choose the information
you want from a lot of news service.
Pointcast collects news and information from over 700 quality sources worldwide and broadcasts it via network to viewer's computer directly. This kind of network service is quite like TV station. And it's better than that. You can just receive the information you want but not a lot of other news.
You can customize your client to tell
the server what kind of news you want to read. For example, you want to
read news on the internet about NYSE and politics of mid-east. You can
just customize your pointcast client to receive these delivery. That's
much easier and saves you time comparing with searching them. and it can
save your computer network's resource greatly.
Pointcast tools can be installed in intranet to push enterprise information to employees' desktops. Keeping employees on top of the news and events affecting your business. This kind of tools can be installed in LAN of company to push the news and notice out to employees. Here I installed a Pointcast Intranet Broadcast Manager.
Step 1. Create a plan for your intranet broadcast
Before installing pointcast intranet
broadcasting manager, following questions must be answered.
What type of information will be broadcast?
How the channel will be organized?
Who will be responsible for providing
the information?
How often it will be updated.
Step 2. Build your intranet channel
After the plan is in place, you can
download
and install pointcast intranet broadcasting manager. When installing, intranet
broadcast manager takes the information you provide about a new channel
in following window: